From: Andrew Johnson
Date: 2005-09-17 08:55:18
I posted an audio of Dr Lisse speaking to Linda Howe about this about 3 or 4 weeks ago: checktheevidence.com… Linda has an article: www.earthfiles.com/n… Publication #325 THE CASE OF THE COMET THAT SPEAKS SUMERIAN BY ZECHARIA SITCHIN On July 4th 2005, a NASA spacecraft named Deep Impact thrust out a metal probe devised to collide with a comet named Tempel-1. The purpose of the planned collision was to ascertain the true makeup of such a primordial comet by observing and analyzing the impact and its resulting debris. The successful collision observed from the spacecraft and a variety of Earth-placed and Earth-orbiting instruments, caused a spectacular flare and an expanding ball of ejecta. As the reports of what had been observed begin to trickle out, it becomes evident that the scientific community is facing a major puzzle: The blast, instead of confirming the comet as a celestial body formed in the solar systems deep-frozen outer fringes, set loose key ingredients of Earth (according to the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle of 9/9/05). AMONG THE PERPLEXING EMERGING FINDINGS ARE THESE: Comets are described as frozen balls of dirty ice; the findings from Tempel- 1 indicate that it is made of broken up rocks that contain clays and carbonates — the minerals of limestones and seashells that are formed only in liquid water. How do clays and carbonates form in frozen comets where there isnt liquid water? asked Dr. C.M. Lisse, a Mission scientist, according to the New York Times of September 7, 2005; Nobody expected this, he said. The Spitzer space telescope also detected in Tempel-l crystalline silicates – a form of the mineral that requires at least 1300 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures to form. How do you put that stuff into a comet that forms out by Pluto? asked the puzzled Dr, Lisse. How, indeed, do you get mineral-melting temperatures in a region of absolute cold? AND LIFES CHEMICALS TOO Reporting some of the initial puzzling findings at a scientific meeting at Cambridge University in England on September 7-8, 2005, Dr. Lisse (of John Hopkins University), Dr. Michael AHearn (University of Maryland) and other scientists expanded the list of Earthlike components discovered in the comet to include chemicals associated with living organisms. They listed (in addition to clays and silicates) carbonates, iron sulfides, alumina, and compounds called PAHs which are among many organic chemicals that show up in living organisms on Earth. Another reported surprise: The team has detected an unexpectedly high concentration of methyl cyanide; biologists say methyl cyanide is a key player in reactions that form DNA (Christian Science Monitor). A Comet in The Wrong Place Comet Tempel-1 is not a new comet. It was discovered in 1867 by Ernst W. L Tempel of Marseille, France, and its very short period of less than six (Earth) years was determined that same year by C. Bruhns of Leipzig, Germany. It was thereafter observed on and off until it and its slightly changed orbit were re-determined in 1963 by the American astronomer B.G. Marsden. Comets form way out in the frigid edges of the solar system, and their nuclei remain deeply frozen during most of their passage through the inner solar system, said Dr. Lisse in pointing out the problems astronomers and astrophysicists now face. Yet it is beyond doubt that the comet has been orbiting the Sun in a relatively limited and nearby part of the solar system, between Mars and Jupiter, as the NASA-released skymap shows: How then explain this wrong place of comet Tempel-1? Dr. Lisse rejected speculation that the comet migrated to the warmer inner solar system within the last 10,000 years. Indeed, were it ever formed out there in the deep freeze, it would not be so Earthlike in all the other respects enumerated above. THE SUMERIAN SOLUTION In fact, there seems to be only one simple solution to the host of enigmas now puzzling the scientists: · Comet Tempel-l is where it is because it was born there, between Mars and Jupiter; · It is Earthlike in its components because it and the Earth were born of the same planetary mother. Readers of my books will hardly need reminding that that planetary mother was called TIAMAT in the Sumerian Epic of Creation – a text deemed by scholars to be an allegory, a myth, a religious text — but treated by me in The 12th Planet and Genesis Revisited as a sophisticated cosmogony dealing with the creation of our Solar System and the fate of Tiamat, a watery planet that had existed in the space between Mars and Jupiter and was destroyed in a celestial collision with an Invader-planet (Nibiru). As a result of the collision: · Half of Tiamat was smashed to bits and pieces to become the asteroids and short term comets that orbit between Mars and Jupiter; · The other half was thrust closer to the Sun to become planet Earth; · The leading large satellite of Tiamat (Kingu) was carried along to become Earths Moon; · Tiamats other ten satellites were broken up to become comets, especially those with retrograde orbits. Sumerian texts dealing with Nibiru explicitly state that during the collision, the life-bearing Nibiru transferred the seed of life – what we now call DNA and the chemicals of lifeto the vanquished Tiamat, and thus to Earth and, we can now realize, to an asteroid called Tempel-1. The Sumerian texts, as I expounded them, answer all the puzzles flowing from the Tempel-1 collision. SO, NOW THAT SCIENCE HAS CAUGHT UP… Even before this more detailed (but not yet full) extent of the discoveries that puzzle astronomers and astrophysicists was publicized, keen-eyed fans of mine have sent to me congratulatory messages: Your 12th Planet theories have just been proved! I of course appreciate the compliments; but I remain doubtful regarding the outcome of this one more so now that you were proven right… As readers of this website (or participants in my seminars) know, it is not the first time that scientific discoveries prove me right. Indeed, the subtitle of Genesis Revisited was (already in 1990) Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge? Modern science continues to catch up with ancient knowledge, but stubbornly the scientists continue to ignore it. THE CASE OF THE TENTH PLANET The announcement, on July 30th 2005, that a new celestial body has been discovered made media news around the world; and because the reports were headlined Astronomers Claim Discovery of 10th Planet, my phone started to constantly ring Some callers shouted Congratulations!; others, more cautiously, asked: Is it Nibiru? Nibiru being the planet of which I had been writing and talking ever since my book The 12th Planet was published decades ago. The announcement by a Caltech astronomer, Michael Brown, said that he and two colleagues, scanning the heavens in 2003, found a celestial body (designated 2003-UB-313) that they now realize might be larger than Pluto (the ninth planet) and thus qualify as the 10th planet in our solar system. Lacking many vital data except that it orbits the Sun at a very steep angle to the ecliptic (the orbital plane of Earth and other planets) and is now about 9 billion miles from us, the discoverys announcement was explained as prompted by concern that a computer hacker, a rogue astronomer, or a team of Spanish astronomers claiming to have found such a body (that they designated 2003-EL-61) would pre-empt the Brown team. A PLANET, A PLANETOID OR WHAT? While the Brown team employed the term tenth planet merely due to its presumed size (larger than Pluto), other astronomers have already pointed out that it could be just one of several (perhaps even numerous) planetoids that are assumed to exist in what is called the Kuiper Belt; the Brown team found one such object not long ago and named it Sedna (and is rumored to be readying an announcement regarding yet another one, 2005-FY-9). All that has kindled a debate among astronomers regarding what is to be deemed a full-fledged planet, or a lesser planetoid, or just a Kuiper Belt Object. Among the many questions that are unanswered is whether the new celestial body, if a planet, has an atmosphere; that the object could not be sensed by the infra-red Spitzer Telescope (which the Brown team tried to do) suggests that it is just an icy rock. THE ANCIENT DATA So is it Nibiru? Have astronomers now found the planet from which, according to my understanding of Mesopotamian and biblical texts and illustrations, astronauts had come to Earth some 450,000 years ago? Based on the sketchy information so far available, the answer is No. This regrettable answer stems, first of all, from comparing the information released regarding the new object and the ancient data concerning Nibiru. The latter was described as a radiating planet (i.e. one that has its own heat source and atmosphere), a planet that sustains life, home planet of the Anunnaki (Those who from heaven to Earth came) the biblical Nefilim. When the Mesopotamian Epic of Creation (Enuma Elish) is treated, as I have suggested, as a sophisticated cosmogony and not as an allegorical myth, the origin and composition of a twelve member solar system become clear. While the existence of varied celestial objects including numerous moons of various planets have been recognized in the ancient texts (and depictions), only our Moon and only Pluto (once Saturns moon) have been included in the count. Together with all the planets we know of today (including those discovered only in the past 150 years) and one more Nibiru the Suns family added up to twelve. Such a solar system was depicted repeatedly on cylinder seals and monuments (now on display in museums in London and Berlin), as shown by illustrations in my books. One made famous by my writings is cylinder seal VA-243 in the Berlin Museum of Near Eastern antiquities, which shows the complete solar system with Nibiru passing between Jupiter and Mars when its orbit brings it back to our vicinity: The cylinder seal is only a little larger than an inch, engraved (as all such seals were) in reverse. The sizes of the planets shown can thus be considered only approximations, relative to each other. Even so, it is evident that Nibiru was deemed not only much larger than Pluto, but also than Earth. It was not an icy rock in the Kuiper Belt. THE SEARCH FOR PLANET X It so happened that just two weeks before the recent news, at the Sitchin Reunion in Chicago July 15 16, 2005, I reviewed the search for Planet X by various astronomers. A significant highlight of that search was the announcement in December 1983 by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory that IRAS (the infra-red telescope) has found a planet, much larger than Earth, moving in the distant heavens in our direction. The announcement hastily retracted as a misunderstanding prompted the Reagan-Gorbachov meetings and President Reagans speech at the U.N. about the common danger to Mankind from an alien planet out there. My audience was treated both to a video presentation of Reagans speech (and Soviet video footage concerning the Phobos Incident), and to a never-before-shown video of my interview of the astronomer who was in charge of the official U.S. government search for Planet X — Dr. Robert Harrington at the United States Naval Observatory. Speaking of the planet as a matter-of-fact, Dr. Harrington described it as 2 -3 times the size or mass of Earth, with an atmosphere, habitable; and compared its position to the one in my books’ drawings: Dr. Harrington died suddenly soon after our interview in August 1991; but what he knew, and what the ancients knew, must remain the only valid criterion for answering the imperative question: Is it Nibiru? Zecharia Sitchin Reproduction is permitted if accompanied by the statement: © Z. Sitchin 2005 Reprinted by permission. Zecharia’s books are available in paperback from Avon Books. Reprints in hardcover are available from Inner Traditions International (Bear & Co.) Zecharia Sitchin does not have email but can be reached by writing to: P.O. Box 577, New York, NY 10185 Zecharias webmaster Erik can be reached by email at erik@erikparker.com This article is a publication from Science Publications, 2456 South Woodlark Drive, Ontario, CA 91761. C.A. Honey may be reached at choneyufo@aol.com or at hometown.aol.com/cho…
